Nicholas Watt

"He thinks he's Captain America...right now he's a bit like an insane grandad!" Labour peer Ayesha Hazarika accuses President Trump of having "no plan" for his war in Iran. #Newsnight

“What [Trump] is actually saying… is that someone's told him, ‘Sir, we can't actually do this by ourselves at the moment’” Author and journalist Tim Marshall on President Trump calling Nato allies 'cowards' for not joining US efforts to open up the Strait of Hormuz #Newsnight

Author and journalist Tim Marshall says it is “extremely hard” to open up the Strait of Hormuz by force #Newsnight

"The fact that Jewish people gather, Sikhs, Muslims gather in public to celebrate... isn't a threat to our nature as a Christian country." The Bishop of Kirkstall disagrees that a public Muslim prayer event was an attempt to "assert... domination" over Christianity. #Newsnight

"I think Britain abandoned that expectation that when people come here... they integrate." "Part of being British... is having tolerance for different cultures" Labour's Ayesha Hazarika and Reform's Laila Cunningham discuss religion in British public life. #Newsnight

John Healey tells MPs that @ZelenskyyUa visiting UK tomorrow. “Oh right,” says @CommonsSpeaker

“I graduated from my undergraduate degree last summer… and I have £90,231 of student loan debt.” Gina Tindale, 22, who went to university from a low income background, says the necessity to take out a larger maintenance loan has significantly added to her debt. #Newsnight

"What linkages could there be between the Palace... and this rumbling, miserable, awful, embarrassing case." Historian David Olusoga on the police investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. #Newsnight

"The King is acting decisively, the government is acting decisively... the problem with that argument is, we've known about this for many, many years." Historian David Olusoga is critical of how long it took the King to respond to allegations of Andrew's misconduct. #Newsnight

"What President Trump did was genius... these reciprocal tariffs have actually lowered costs" Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna responds to the Supreme Court ruling against President Trump's tariffs. #Newsnight

"I called up my counterpart, Mark Sedwill, at the time and said 'What the hell are you guys doing giving up the Chagos Islands?'" Former National Security Advisor HR McMaster on the Chagos Deal following recent criticism by President Trump. #Newsnight

"President Trump's gonna run out of patience and I think you'll see a sustained air campaign against the Iranian regime..." H.R. McMaster, former National Security Advisor to President Trump, on the likelihood of strikes against Iran. #Newsnight

“Put yourself in the minds of the Iranian regime. You’re basically being asked to negotiate yourself out of existence. What would you do?” Jasmine El-Gamal, former Middle East adviser at the Pentagon, explains the situation facing the Iranian regime. #Newsnight

"The situation is extremely fragile for them... they're weak at home, I think they're weak abroad." Ali Ansari, University of St Andrews, on the current state of the Iranian regime. #Newsnight

'Strength is in my DNA...| am a survivor' Gisele Pelicot, in her own words, in her only UK TV interview Please do watch - her message is powerful; there are SO many emotions in this interview On @bbciplayer now, or tomorrow night, BBC 2, 10pm bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Gisele Pelicot - the #Newsnight Interview This Sunday…

Shortly on @BBCPM with @EvanHD on how Keir Starmer led a fight back in the cabinet room with supporters this afternoon

A Labour critic of Anas Sarwar texts: “If there was a way to galvanise the PLP, this was it. Well done Anas.”

A light touch brilliantly delivered by @BBCMaryam and the @BBCNews team

@MichaelLCrick Thanks Michael. I made clear on #Newsnight we were treating the poll with great caution bc: 1) very small sample size which leads to much higher margin of error + bc 2) Workers’ Party not included and they got 10% in 2024. I said we were mentioning poll bc parties poring over it

Newsnight are bonkers to mention an opinion poll in Gorton & Denton with a sample of just 143. 1,000 is the normal respectable sample size.